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GA HR1502
Resolution
Status
Passed
3/9/2018
Primary Sponsor
Bee Nguyen
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AI Summary
- Georgia House of Representatives commends Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (January 30, 1919 – March 30, 2005), a Japanese American civil rights activist who defied the World War II Japanese internment order and challenged his conviction up to the U.S. Supreme Court
- Korematsu's wartime conviction was overturned on November 10, 1983, by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel after evidence emerged that the federal government had suppressed findings that Japanese Americans were not security threats
- President Bill Clinton awarded Korematsu the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 15, 1998, recognizing his lifelong advocacy for civil liberties and justice
- Resolution acknowledges the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which issued a formal apology and symbolic compensation to persons of Japanese ancestry subjected to wartime internment
- Copies of the resolution are directed to be distributed to the Georgia Asian American and Pacific Islander community, the Georgia Latino House Caucus, and the Fred T. Korematsu Institute
Legislative Description
Korematsu, Fred; commend
Last Action
House Read and Adopted
3/9/2018
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